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View Poll Results: Which indigenous European ethnic group is the closest genetically to Sub-Saharan Africans?
Albanians 1 3.03%
Greeks 5 15.15%
Italians 2 6.06%
Russians 4 12.12%
Portuguese 12 36.36%
Spaniards 2 6.06%
French 0 0%
Sicilians 7 21.21%
Macedonians 0 0%
Other 0 0%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-29-2014, 10:21 PM
 
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We can't forget that Portugal was the king of the African slave trade well before the British and North America. They basically invented it. If Portugal has admixture, it's likely from this rather than ancestral ties.
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Old 09-30-2014, 02:02 AM
 
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No Ethnic European population may be close to Africans in that sense. Nevertheless populations of Europe whivh have absorbed high admixtures from Africans are Southern European. (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, etc...
Still European

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You are 100% European. Genes have walked all over the place around the world, and the haplotypes are tens of thousands years old.
I know, who cares who ****ed who 1000+ years ago?
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Old 09-30-2014, 02:11 AM
 
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How idiotic.
Until quite recently Portugal had many African colonies, blacks from those countries live in Portugal, in Lisbon mainly.
It's like saying that Americans are 40 percent non-European putting them together, as it should be.
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Old 10-07-2014, 02:17 PM
 
Location: England
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Miserere what a cherrypicked map from earlier on.

This one:



Or this one is much more realistic:



As you can see it is obvious that the Iberian peninsula is the most hottest place in Europe followed by Greece (including the islands).

Which is why those hottest places are called the Mediterranean and not for no reason.

While Iberia is more closer to North Africa, while Greece is much closer to the Near East, by their locations.

For my answer to the OP's thread question I would say that it is both Spanish and Portuguese first followed by Maltese and then Sicilians, if you must.
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Old 10-07-2014, 04:15 PM
 
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Icelanders have hugest sub-saharan admixture, closely followed by Finns.
Inhabitants of Far Oer are said to be descendant of Congolese people who migrated there in 500,000,000 BC.
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Old 10-07-2014, 04:28 PM
 
Location: England
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Icelanders have hugest sub-saharan admixture, closely followed by Finns.
Inhabitants of Far Oer are said to be descendant of Congolese people who migrated there in 500,000,000 BC.
Not so necessary to mention.

Icelanders and Finns are much more likely to have instead Northeast Asian admixture instead than Sub-Saharan genes.

Otherwise explain the looks of Italian Islanders or other Mediterranean people below:

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/arti...py-Unhappy.jpg
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wen...e-match-01.jpg
http://oswegocountytoday.com/wp-cont...re-300x447.jpg
http://ih3.redbubble.net/image.54295...x550,075,f.jpg
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/I...9wsVemeOel.jpg
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/S...psEBf0VcHl.jpg

Sorry.

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Old 10-07-2014, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Cumberland County, NJ
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Icelanders have hugest sub-saharan admixture, closely followed by Finns.
Inhabitants of Far Oer are said to be descendant of Congolese people who migrated there in 500,000,000 BC.
I know you're trying to be condescending but just in case you didn't know, Northern Europeans are the least likely to have African ancestry.
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Old 10-07-2014, 04:49 PM
 
Location: England
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I know you're trying to be condescending but just in case you didn't know, Northern Europeans are the least likely to have African ancestry.
Do not take any notice of him.

Off course Northern Europeans have less African ancestry than other Europeans.
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Old 10-07-2014, 04:56 PM
 
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As the French say

"Africa begins at the Pyrenees"
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Old 10-07-2014, 05:12 PM
 
Location: England
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As the French say

"Africa begins at the Pyrenees"
True this is why Mediterranean Island countries such as Spain, Portugal, Malta, Sicily have good amounts of suspect or ambiguous people.

It is not so rare either but common.

Maltese women
http://ih3.redbubble.net/image.54295...x550,075,f.jpg
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/23...d7e49568ab.jpg

Portuguese
http://www.futbolingo.com/img/2012/1...o_quaresma.jpg
http://s28.postimg.org/aj6kdb9d9/fernando_meira.jpg

Spaniards
https://carlosgomez11.files.wordpres.../sonriendo.jpg
http://www.lovecanarias.com/wp-conte.../jos-velez.jpg

I exactly follow the French in this believe also due to my genetic connections from Northern France.
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